On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 3:46 AM, Anantha Raghava < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Arik, > > Interesting.. > > I was thinking that, by converting to OVA appliance, we can release our > product as appliance that will work on Xen, VMWare or KVM. Now OVA works > both on Xen and VMWare and both can be interchanged with each other. > > Do you mean to say that both Xen and VMWare have written specific parsers > to convert the disk formats amongst each other. > It's not just disk format - imagine the network interface driver - the PV Xen NIC driver vs. vmxnet3 (or however it's called) in VMware. Most of the HW devices are different as well. Y. > Xen, I am talking about Citrix Xen. > > -- > > Thanks & Regards, > > > Anantha Raghava eXzaTech Consulting And Services Pvt. Ltd. > > Do not print this e-mail unless required. Save Paper & trees. > On Sunday 12 February 2017 06:27 PM, Arik Hadas wrote: > > > > On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Anantha Raghava < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello Arik, >> >> Converting to an appliance (OVA) makes the VM portable. Works on multiple >> hypervisor. VM migration and interoperability becomes uncomplicated. >> > > Thanks Anantha. > That's true only to some extent. > For example, without converting OVA that was generated by VMware using > virt-v2v oVirt cannot consume it since the VMDK disks format is not > supported in oVirt. Another example is the OVF representation that differs > among various virtualization management platforms. > So if you are trying to migrate a VM from oVirt to another platform and > assume you'll get this out-of-the-box by having an OVA that is generated by > oVirt, I'm afraid you'll be disappointed in case the target platform > doesn't support the format of the disks or doesn't know how to parse the > OVF that is generated by oVirt. > And there may be more use cases for exporting the VM as OVA, that's why > I'm interested to know what's the goal in this case :) > > >> -- >> >> Thanks & Regards, >> >> >> Anantha Raghava eXzaTech Consulting And Services Pvt. Ltd. >> >> Do not print this e-mail unless required. Save Paper & trees. >> On Sunday 12 February 2017 06:04 PM, Arik Hadas wrote: >> >> Hi Benjamin, >> >> Unfortunately not. >> We intend to make more use of the OVA format soon, we design this these >> days. >> May I ask what is the motivation in your case to export the VM as OVA? >> >> Regards, >> Arik >> >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 11:41 AM, Benjamin Alfery < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm using ovirt 4.0 and was wondering if it is possible to export an >>> existing VM to ova format (via the gui). If it's not possible via GUI, >>> is that possible at all? >>> >>> >>> Best Regards >>> Benjamin >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing >> [email protected]http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > >
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